Two sit comes last week dipped their toe into the world of Star Trek. The most overt was the CBS series The Big Bang Theory which included guest spots with TNG stars Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton, while the NBC show Community had a more subtle homage to Star Trek. Watch both below.

Spiner and Wheaton on The Big Bang Theory

On the episode “The Russian Rocket Reaction” Wil Wheaton returned to The Big Bang Theory, again playing himself and this time he brought along his Star Trek: The Next Generation co-star Brent Spiner. Watch it via YouTube.

Evil goatees and alternative timelines on Community

For "Remedial Chaos Theory" the gang on Community were shown in multiple different timelines (created by rolling of a die). The final scene showed the aftermath of the darkest of those timelines which resulted in Mirror Universe style goatees and references to the "prime timeline" (ala Star Trek 2009). Enjoy (via Hulu, sorry non-USA people).

Ronny Cox (Captain Edward Jellico of TNG’s Chain of Command 2-parter) was on Dexter Sunday night and he was excellent! In addition, Manny Coto, the near-savior of ENT, wrote the episode. No spoilers here; watch it because it’s worth it.

Jellico often gets a bad rap when you consider he did what he was supposed to do – avert a war – while Riker was a big fat cry baby about not getting command during the mission for which he was unqualified and inexperienced. Truth be told, I did like the speech he gave Jellico near the end but Jellico was right all along.

Funny stuff. Gotta love Spiner and Wheaton. The whole TNG cast in fact is fantastic for not taking themselves too seriously. They’ve all done hilarious parodies of themselves on various tv over the years. Class acts all around.